21. Evaluate success of practical activity

Since we got to learn the basics in the first preliminary, i found that setting up the camera wasn't that difficult this time round.We found it easy to set up the different shots as we just has to replicate the shots from Gone Girl. It was hard at first to get it to look as sharp and seamless when we couldnt get quiet, dark settings like in the film, but we got really good match cuts that made the editing look almost invisible. We worked well as a team to get all our ideas into one. For example one of the first shots was a man stroking a womans hair, and at this point we couldnt get the right angle, but we looked at different angles and positions and soon worked it out, it looked good too. Without the planning (and storyboard) the opening would not have been as good. We had to pay close attention to detail including the different sounds, (diegetic and non-diegetic) which helped us a lot when it came to filming. Throughout the activity we made sure that we maintained the genre, and didn't make it look or sound like any other genre than thriller. The film that we made the remake on inspired us to think about whether we should follow the conventions for our media product.